My 99-cent sale for Metropolitan ends midnight on Wednesday, so if you haven’t yet got a copy, check out  Amazon, Kobo, Barnes & Noble, iBooks, and Smashwords.  (Actually I may delay a bit, because there’s a late run at Smashwords, with the book running off the shelves ever since Saturday night.  I assume someone said something nice about the book somewhere online, […]

The ebook of my novel Metropolitan is on sale for the next week for a mere 99 cents! 99 cents for a novel about the city that covers the world!  How can you possibly resist this deal? I’ve previously made a whole series of posts about the book, which I won’t repeat now, but which you […]

So right now I want to go all Andy Rooney on the subject of armpits. I recently went to a drugstore to get myself some stick deodorant.  You know, the containers that allow you to stuff aluminum into your armpits, so that people around you won’t faint if you’re stuck in crowded elevator. I like […]

In answers to my recent query about TV I should be watching, friend of the blog Foxessa mentioned the perils that might come with giving the fans what they want.  Because what fanatical viewers want may not be the best thing for the series, and I thought I’d rant about that for a while. Usually […]